Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

â€œDeccaâ€ Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracyâ€”one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sistersâ€”she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchillâ€™s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposÃ©, The American Way of Death, became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of lettersâ€”now gathered here.

Deccaâ€™s correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief, and with acute insight into human behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics, the arts, journalism, publishing, and high and low society. Here is correspondence with everyone from Katharine Graham and George Jackson, Betty Friedan, Miss Manners, Julie Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harry Truman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Deccaâ€™s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the novelist Nancy Mitford, her parents, her husbands, her children, and her grandchildren.

In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK), said, â€œHer favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2006-10-17
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780375410321

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2006-10-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780375410321

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

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